| SUNDAY |
| 4:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | O2 Activation |
| Session Chair: Charles Riordan, University of Delaware |
| 7:30 pm | Welcome and Announcements |
| 7:40 pm | John Bercaw, California Institute of Technology
"Towards a Homogeneous Catalyst for Selective Oxidations of Alkanes Using Dioxygen" |
| 8:25 pm | John Lipscomb, University of Minnesota
"Oxygen Activation at Non-Heme Iron: The Obscure and the Obscured" |
| 9:15 pm | Chair's Reception |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Polymerization Catalysis |
| Session Chair: Gui Bazan, University of California at Santa Barbara |
| 9:00 am | Tobin Marks, Northwestern University
"Homogeneous and Supported Electrophiles in the Synthesis of New Materials" |
| 9:45 am | Clark Landis, University of Wisconsin
"Unconventional Wisdom and Metallocene-Catalyzed Alkene Polymerization" |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| 10:50 am | Richard Jordan, University of Chicago
"The Polar Monomer Problem: The Challenge of Insertion Polymerization of Functionalized Olefins" |
| 11:35 am | Geoffrey Coates (Cornell University)
"Mechanisms of Catalytic Epoxide Transformations" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Free Time |
| 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I (A - K) |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | N2 Activation |
| Session Chair: Jonas Peters, California Institute of Technology |
| 7:30 pm | Lance Seefeldt, Utah State University
"Nitrogenase Mechanism" |
| 8:15 pm | Richard Schrock, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Catalytic Reduction of Dinitrogen at a Single Molybdenum Center" |
| 9:00 pm | Patrick Holland, University of Rochester
"Three-Coordinate Iron: New Activities When It's Half-Naked" |
| 9:45 pm | Poster Session I (A - K) |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Bioinorganic |
| Session Chair: Lisa Berreau, Utah State University |
| 9:00 am | Pradip Mascharak, University of California at Santa Cruz
"Structural and Functional Models of Nitrile Hydratase: A Smart way to Hydrolyze Nitriles" |
| 9:45 am | Hilary Godwin, Northwestern University
"Kinetics of Metal Binding and Substitution Reactions in Zinc-Finger Peptides" |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| 10:50 am | Ged Parkin, Columbia University
"Unusual Deuterium Isotope Effects In Organometallic and Bioinorganic Chemistry" |
| 11:35 am | Michael Green, Penn State University
"The Role of Thiolate Ligation in Cytochromes P450" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Free Time |
| 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I (A - K) |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | NOx Activation |
| Session Chair: Peter Ford, University of California at Santa Barbara |
| 7:30 pm | Sergei Lymar, Brookhaven National Laboratory
"Revising the Chemistry of Nitrogen in Low Positive Oxidation States" |
| 8:15 pm | Patrick Farmer, University of California at Irvine
"HNO Adducts of Hemoproteins: Synthesis and Reactivity Studies" |
| 9:00 pm | Gregory Hillhouse, University of Chicago
"Coordination Chemistry and Redox Reactions of NOHx Ligands" |
| 9:45 pm | Poster Session I (A - K) |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Oxidations/O2 Activation |
| Session Chair: Klaus Theopold, University of Delaware |
| 9:00 am | Matthew Sigman, University of Utah
"Palladium-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidation Reactions" |
| 9:45 am | Andreja Bakac, Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University
"Activation of Oxygen with Chromium and Iron Complexes" |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| 10:50 am | Shinobu Itoh, Osaka City University
"Control of Copper(I)-Dioxygen Reactivity by Pyridylalkylamine Ligands" |
| 11:35 am | Andrew Borovik, University of Kansas
"The Effects of Non-Covalent Interactions on Metal-Mediated Cleavage of Dioxygen" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Free Time |
| 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session II (L - Z) |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Special Topics |
| Session Chair: William Evans, University of California, Irvine |
| 7:30 pm | Thomas Strassner, Technische Universität Dresden
"Metal-oxo mediated oxygen transfer: mechanistic aspects" |
| 8:15 pm | Christopher Reed, University of California at Riverside
"The Strongest Acid" |
| 9:00 pm | Poster Session II (L - Z) |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Organometallic |
| Session Chair: Seth Brown, University of Notre Dame |
| 9:00 am | Chuck Casey, University of Wisconsin
"Mechanism of Hydrogenation of Polar Molecules by Catalysts Having Both Acidic and Hydridic Hydrogens" |
| 9:45 am | Daniel Mindiola, Indiana University
"What a Difference One Electron Makes: Oxidatively-Induced Alpha-Hydrogen Abstractions and Subsequent Intramolecular Wittig-Like Reactions" |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| 10:50 am | Russell Hughes, Dartmouth College
"Coupling C-F Bond Activation with C-H or C-C Bond Formation at Iridium: Mechanism and Stereochemistry" |
| 11:35 am | Eric Jacobsen, Harvard University
"Cooperative Bimetallic Mechanisms in Asymmetric Catalysis" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Free Time |
| 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session II (L - Z) |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm | Business Meeting / Discussion of "Constructing a Kinetics Database" led by David Stanbury, Auburn University. |
| 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Special Lecture |
| Session Chair: Jim Mayer, University of Washington |
| 8:00 pm | Keith Ingold, Steacie National Research Council, Canada
"The Answer to the Great Question (for fans of Douglas Adams) Kinetic Solvent Effects on Hydrogen Atom and Proton Transfer Reactions (for mechanistic chemists and other nerds)" |
| 9:15 pm | Poster Session II (L - Z) |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
